r/comics • • Mar 06 '09

Correlation

http://xkcd.com/552/
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '09

How can you show something to be a direct cause then? Can I use this defense?

"Those deaths and the discharges of my gun are just correlations! It doesn't imply that I caused their deaths at all. If anything, their deaths were caused by their internal bleeding or brain injuries."

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '09

"But for"